Actors: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff
Director: Jules Dassin
How much credit do we give to films that break molds? How much generosity do we have towards films that explain things we as a modern audience already know? The Naked City attempts to lay out how homicide investigations work, then leads us methodically through their chase. This feels novel for the time, but it's quite tedious to any veteran of procedural shows. The film's 'gimmick', and the reason why it's any good at all, is that it also has the twist of being shot largely on location. The film even makes it a point to state early on that it's shot on location. As a result, it's hard for me not to experience the exhiliration that must've been watching the film's climax in 1948 - that this feels REAL, and the earlier slow-paced scenes drive home that reality even more. It's a shame how in these days of CGI how so much of film has retreated once again to the studio.
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